“The ANC-ruled South African government uses the Nazi (proportional representation) doctrine which was designed to bar Jews from the labour market, ‘as a weapon … against minorities by the dominant majority…’

Jan uary 28 2010 – JOHANNESBURG. Patrick Lawrence writes i.a.: "President Jacob Zuma, like President Thabo Mbeki before him, is a strenuous proponent of "transformation," a vaguely defined policy objective which most South Africans understand and support as a ‘constructive policy aimed at reconstructing South Africa as a free, open and non-racial society.’

"Unfortunately, however, it involves racial preferencing in favour of blacks through the policies of affirmative action and black empowerment as a means of ‘redressing past discrimination against and oppression of black South Africans by previous white governments.”

Young whites also not exempted since 1994:

"The difficulty is compounded by the steadfast refusal of the Mbeki and Zuma administrations either to set a deadline to its racial preferencing policy or, at the least, to exempt young whites who were grade one or two pupils when Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February of 1990 and who should not be held accountable for past injustices.

"Racial preferencing policies self-evidentlyrequire racial classification in order to identify those who qualify for preferential treatment and those who do not.

“Thus post apartheid South Africa is characterised by a glaring anomaly: an ANC government that proudly proclaims its commitment to non-racialism while retaining a form of race classification and "positive" or "fair" discrimination in favour of blacks.

"There is another even graver problem: the ANC's steadfast commitment to the doctrine of “proportionality or represensivity” which seeks to ensure that the racial profile of government departments and private companies reflect the racial profile of the population as a whole.

"Apart from leading to employment of people on the basis of skin colour rather than experience or qualifications, at the risk of administrative incompetence and, in extreme cases, even administrative collapse, there is an even graver objection.

‘Proportionality was used by the Nazis in Germany to restrict the Jews…’

"Representivity or proportionality has an unfortunate history: it was used by the Nazis in Germany in the early years of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich to restrict the number of Jews in the legal, medical and teaching profession to the proportion they constituted of the German populations as a whole.

Hendrik Verwoerd also used proportionality to restrict the Jews – not the blacks:

"It is significant, too, that Hendrik Verwoerd, who was later to acquire notoriety as the "high priest of apartheid," advocated it use in South Africa in the 1930s to limit the number of Jewsin the professions to their proportion of the population. His aim in doing so was to ensure that Afrikaners and their English-speaking compatriots were similarly representative in proportion to the numbers in the white population as a whole.

"Black people were initially not considered at all by Verwoerd in the 1930s." … Lawrence writes, adding that this was probably due to the small number of skilled black Africans in the professions, continuing:

"Later, he (Verwoerd) employed a different rationale to restrict the number of black people, arguing that ‘they should exercise their skills in their own areas (homelands) and not in white-designated South Africa."

"Whatever its theoretical justifications in South Africa [today], the doctrine of proportionality is a potentially pernicious doctrine open to abuse as a weapon to be wielded against minorities or selected minorities by the dominant majority."Democracies are not merely characterised by majority rule and the holding of regular elections under clear and equitable rule.

“The defence of minority rights is an important and perhaps even indispensable distinguishing feature of democracy,’ he concludes.

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '